Heritage register
The Kelowna Heritage Register is an official listing of properties within the community that are identified as having heritage value. Search the register below.
The Heritage Register replaces the 1983 Kelowna Heritage Resources Inventory. In 1994, the Local Government Act, along with the community's growth and public interest in the conservation and revitalization of heritage buildings and sites, allowed for the creation of the Heritage Register.
More than 200 properties are currently listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register. For each listed building, a Statement of Significance has been written, indicating why the building merits inclusion. A Statement of Significance provides a description of and identifies the heritage value and character-defining elements of a historic place.
The Heritage Register identifies properties of heritage value in Kelowna and allows us to review and monitor proposed changes that would have an impact on listed heritage properties. Properties listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register have special status and may be eligible to benefit from the following incentives:
- Heritage Revitalization Agreements to vary the City’s Zoning and Subdivision, Development and Servicing Bylaws. This allows the City to consider, on a case-by-case basis, providing property owners with incentives and bonuses such as increasing density, relaxing height and setback restrictions and relaxing parking restrictions, and allowing appropriate adaptive re-uses. In return for these incentives, the property owners would agree to retain and protect the listed properties.
- Special treatment under the BC Building Code, which permits equivalencies to current building code provisions. The equivalencies allow property owners to upgrade older buildings without requiring strict code compliance, while not compromising safety standards.
The Heritage Grants Program, administered by the Central Okanagan Heritage Society is designed to promote conservation of residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural heritage buildings by assisting owners with grants for a portion of the costs incurred in conservation work. Eligible work may include reroofing, window and door conservation, siding and porch conservation, work on foundation and repainting. Any owner with a property listed on the Kelowna Heritage Register is eligible to apply for this program. Interested applicants should visit the Central Okanagan Heritage Society's website for more information.
Buildings listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register can be altered and may even be demolished. However, City Council may temporarily delay the issuance of a permit to alter or demolish a listed heritage building in order to allow time for other development options to be fully explored with the property owner, City staff and the Heritage Advisory Committee.
Inclusion of a property in a Heritage Register doesn’t constitute Heritage Designation or any other form of heritage protection. Furthermore, having a building included in the Heritage Register doesn’t restrict the existing development potential of a property. The property owner is entitled to redevelop the property in accordance with the permitted uses and density of the existing zone of that property.
Requests from property owners to add buildings to or remove buildings from the Kelowna Heritage Register are reviewed by City staff. The City’s Policy & Planning Department will compile background information on the subject building and an evaluation of the building’s architectural and cultural history, context and integrity will be conducted in open meeting with the Heritage Advisory Committee. This process follows the Kelowna Heritage Register Evaluation Criteria.
Following the evaluation, the Policy & Planning Department will forward a recommendation to City Council regarding the proposed addition or removal of the building to the Register. The property owners will be advised of Council’s decision.
The historic place is the large, two-storey, concrete-block Cadder House (also known as Oak Lodge), built in 1908, and situated at 2124 Pandosy Street in the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one and one-half storey wood house built in 1912 and located at 2127 Pandosy Street in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The Collett House is a large two and one-half storey wood-frame Foursquare residence with a hipped roof, set on a large lot at the corner of Pandosy Street and Royal Avenue. The house is distinguished by its broad hipped roof, central hipped roof dormer and full-width open front verandah. A complementary early garage is situated behind the house.
The historic place is the two-storey wood Anne Stirling House, built in 1910 in a fusion of the Tudor Revival and Arts and Crafts styles, and located at 2178 Pandosy Street in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the 2.5-storey wood house built about 1916 in the Foursquare style and located at 2319 Pandosy Street, in Kelowna's South Pandosy / KLO neighbourhood
The Temple House is a one and one-half storey wood-frame Arts and Crafts bungalow set back from the front property line. It is situated on the north side of Park Avenue in the block between Abbott and Long Streets in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The G.L. Dore House is a stucco-clad one and one-half storey Craftsman influenced bungalow, situated mid-block on the south side of Park Avenue, between Abbott and Long Streets in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood. It is built close to the lot line with a low rubble-stone wall at the front that spans to the adjacent property.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey wood-frame Reekie House, a Craftsman Bungalow built around 1907 at 429 Park Avenue, in the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area in Kelowna's South Central Neighbourhood.
This historic place is the large 2 1/2 storey wood-frame residence with Tudor Revival details known as the Joyce Hostel located at 455 Park Avenue in the South Central Neighbourhood of Kelowna, British Columbia. The site lies within the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area.
The Buck House is a large two and one-half storey wood-frame residence, situated on the south side of Park Avenue at the corner of Pandosy Street in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood. The building is partially hidden from the street by overgrown plantings.
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